• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.579-591
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• 2004

This paper presents a new arc segmentation method which extracts curves from simple drawing consisted of straight lines and curves and segments them into circular arcs. First, it finds center points and finds line segments and curve segments by tracing connected center points. Next, it expands the segment by searching neighbor segment at the two endpoints. Next, it removes straight lines and segments the extracted curves into circular arcs by using the recursive subdivision method. The proposed method has been compared with previous vectorization software and vector based arc segmentation method. Experimental results show that the proposed method produces more correct results for the curves which contain intersection with other lines or curves.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.614-622
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• 2015

Binary MQ arithmetic coding is widely used recently as a basic entropy coder in multimedia coding system. MQ coder esteems high in compression efficiency to be used in JBIG2 and JPEG2000. The importance of arithmetic coding is increasing after it is adopted as an unique entropy coder in HEVC standard. In the binary MQ coder, arithmetic approximation without multiplication is used in the process of recursive subdivision of range interval. Because of the MPS/LPS exchange activity happened in MQ coder, output byte tends to increase. This paper proposes an enhanced binary MQ arithmetic coder to make use of a lookup table for AQe using quantization skill in order to reduce the deficiency. Experimental results show that about 4% improvement of compression in case of JBIG2 for bi-level image compression standard. And also, about 1% improvement of compression ratio is obtained in case of lossless JPEG2000 coding. For the lossy JPEG2000 coding, about 1% improvement of PSNR at the same compression ratio. Additionally, computational complexity is not increasing.